>From bayonne/server/status.cpp:

strcpy(buffer, keypaths.getRunfiles());
strcat(buffer, "/bayonne.nodes");
if(!canModify(buffer))
{
strcpy(buffer, getenv("HOME"));
strcat(buffer, "/.bayonne.nodes");
}

if(argc != 1)
{
cerr << "use: bayonne_status" << endl;
exit(-1);
}

I do not have a "bayonne_status" binary in my 1.2.6
installation so the
help information it prints is not of much value.  Is
there any reason
that is unobvious to me why we cannot use argv[0]
instead of
"bayonne_status"?

When I call the binary without any arguments, the
following happens:

  root@oslo#
/share/sys/bayonne/bayonne/lib/bayonne/1.2.6/status.bin
  bayonne_status: /root/.bayonne.nodes: cannot access

Shouldn't it have used the path I told it about via
--prefix here?
Perhaps that's what it does via keypaths.getRunfiles().